Instant Cities: Florence

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Explore or race by bike, on foot or on horseback through Renaissance Florence!

Ride through the heart of Florence in 3D, past the Duomo, Piazza della Signoria, the Uffizi and the Ponte Vecchio, with every building from OpenStreetMap.

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What there is to do

The real Florence

Wander among about 4,200 buildings rebuilt in 3D from OpenStreetMap: a first piece of the centre, with more of the city to come.

Renaissance Florence

See the Duomo and the Baptistery, cross Piazza della Signoria past the Uffizi to the Ponte Vecchio, and ride on to Santa Croce and Santa Maria Novella.

A race: Duomo and Ponte Vecchio

Race from the Duomo down the Via dei Calzaiuoli to Piazza della Signoria, on to the Ponte Vecchio, along the Arno and back by Santa Trinita to the Baptistery.

This is Florence

Florence is the capital of Tuscany, a city of stone palaces and red roofs on the River Arno. In the 15th century, under the Medici, its bankers, architects and artists started the Renaissance, and the works of Brunelleschi, Botticelli, Leonardo and Michelangelo still fill its churches, squares and museums.

  • Brunelleschi’s dome on the cathedral, still the largest brick dome in the world
  • Michelangelo’s David and the paintings of the Uffizi
  • The Ponte Vecchio, with its goldsmiths’ shops on the bridge
  • Bistecca alla fiorentina, Chianti wine and Tuscan leather

About the city

Where Florence lies in Italy Rome Venice Salerno Siena Pisa Lecce Florence
Florence in Italy, whose capital is Rome (the square).

Places, elements and landmarks

DuomoFlorence’s cathedral, crowned by Brunelleschi’s dome, still the largest brick dome ever built. Giotto’s Bell TowerThe slender bell tower beside the cathedral, clad in white, green and pink marble. BaptisteryThe octagonal baptistery with Ghiberti’s bronze doors, which Michelangelo called the Gates of Paradise. Piazza della SignoriaThe square of the Palazzo Vecchio, with a copy of Michelangelo’s David at its door. Palazzo VecchioFlorence’s fortress-like town hall since 1299, with its tall tower off to one side. Loggia dei LanziAn open arcade on the square, full of statues, among them Cellini’s Perseus with the head of Medusa. UffiziThe Medici’s offices turned into one of the world’s great museums, with Botticelli’s Birth of Venus. Ponte VecchioThe bridge of goldsmiths over the Arno, the only one the retreating Germans left standing in 1944. Piazza della RepubblicaWhere the Roman forum was, now a square with a carousel and old cafés under a triumphal arch.

All 13 places and landmarks

Famous art in Florence

The Birth of VenusSandro Botticelli, c. 1484–1486 PrimaveraSandro Botticelli, c. 1480 Venus de’ MediciSigned by Kleomenes, 1st century BC The AnnunciationLeonardo da Vinci, c. 1472–1476 Venus of UrbinoTitian, 1538 MedusaCaravaggio, c. 1597 Sir John HawkwoodPaolo Uccello, 1436 DavidMichelangelo, 1501–1504

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